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Encyclopedia > Meishan

Meishan (formerly Meizhou) is a prefecture-level city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China. Meishan is in the southwest of Sichuan Bassin. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: d , literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...


Meishan is the seat of Meishan prefecture. Liu Hanyuan, one of the ten richest private persons in the People's Republic of China is a native of Meishan.


Meishan Prison

Meishan Prison is a prison, which was established in 1952. It includes Jianxin Chemical Works, which produces Glauber's salt.



Prefecture-level divisions of Sichuan
Sub-provincial cities: Chengdu
Prefecture-level cities: Bazhong | Dazhou | Deyang | Guang'an | Guangyuan | Leshan | Luzhou | Meishan
Mianyang | Nanchong | Neijiang | Panzhihua | Shuining | Ya'an | Yibin | Zigong | Ziyang
Autonomous prefectures: Aba | Garzê | Liangshan
List of Sichuan County-level divisions

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